Quotes About Honesty

I've never been afraid to be who I really am on screen.

Alls I'm saying is cops can lie to you, but you can't lie to the cops. Which is why we often advise people not to say anything.

Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, a thirteenth century scholar, said that it is possible for anyone to have sincerity in what one does and in what one believes, irrespective of creed.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

when I stopped lying to myself, stopped trying to make excuses for her. It was as if I woke up from some feverish dream and found myself locked into a nightmare.

I would not have the marriage annulled. You are my husband." Connall looked torn for a minute, then said, "Why will ye keep it so when ye ken what I am?" "I . . ." She peered at him helplessly, not quite having the courage to reveal her feelings. "If 'tis out of duty, I'll no ha'e it. I'll no ha'e ye stayin' with me out o' duty and silently hatin' me fer what I am." "I

The Emperor's New Clothes.

"But the emperor has nothing at all on!" a little child declared.

"But he hasn't got anything on," a little child said.

Nobody forced me to speak. Nobody? Ah yes, alcohol had made me do it. When once I had understood, when once I had realised to the full, what a liar alcohol is, and what liars it makes of honest men, I swore never to touch another drop and even to give up my occasional glass of beer. But what are resolutions, what are plans?

Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you're with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion.

They minute people fall in love they become liars.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Sir William Haley, one of my predecessors as editor of the Times, said, "There are things which are bad and false and ugly and no amount of specious casuistry will make them good or true or beautiful.

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

Jefferson said he only read the advertisements in the newspaper, because it was there he was most likely to find the truth.

Abraham Lincoln

To admit the presence of fear isn't weakness. Only a fool would pretend that he is never fearful.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Friends are more than just people who will listen to what you have to say and agree with you. Sometimes they have to tell you things you don't want to hear for your own sake. Please listen to what we have to say.

Is it ever acceptable to be angry at God? I would suggest that it is not only acceptable, it may be one of the hallmarks of a truly religious person. It puts honesty ahead of flattery.